St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-30

the woman get up off the cot occupied
by Kramer in the lower corridor, shake
down her clothes and run back up stairs.
That was the substance of PeterSOn's
testimony. We then called in Shields
and Kramer and Picha, one by one, and
questioned them. Now, the woman's
place of confinement was on the inside
corridor of the upper tier of cells, and
the key was carried by Shields. He
admitted having let her out to go to
the corridor below, and gave as a
reason that she had been singing and
yelling and keeping all the prisoners
awake. Kramer could not deny that
she had been on the cot with him, but
would admit nothing more. That was
all the evidence we had and the woman
herself had said that she had not had
intercourse with Kramer, having been
interrupted by Peterson. After hear
ing the testimony l talked the thing
over with members of the board, and we
all agreed that it was too filthy case
to be given to the newspapers, at least
until we should find stronger evidence
against the men. There was nothing
said that Tuesday night about
PLACING THEM UNDER ARREST,
and did not discharge them then for
two reasons. In the first place, we
would have been without watchman
for that night, and, again, l wished to
think the matter over during the night
and to act carefully and justly. When
i arose the next morning l had fully
made up my mind to dis
charge Kramer and Shields, and
l telephoned to my chief deputy
Mr.. Lunkenheimer, and told him to
have Shields wait until | arrived at the
Office. | came down about o'clock,
called in the men, and discharged them.
did not do SO because L believed they
were guilty of intercourse with the
woman, because that had not been
shown, but did it because it was
plainly shown that Shields had been
guilty in letting the woman out of the
upper corridor, and that Kramer and
the woman had been found in COM
promising position. Secretary Hart.
of the state board, was to
have met me at the Jail that morning,
but he did not come. He telegraphed,
however, about 10 o'clock, and said he
could not be present. and l told him
then that had discharged Shields and
Kramer, the watchmen. He did not say
anything about holding the men, or
about swearing out warrants for their
arrest, and 1, myself, did not believe
that there was any evidence to hold
| do not now believe that
the charges can be sustained.
Both Kramer and Shields were in the
city all that day, to my knowledge.
Shields could not have left the city
until 4:30 p. m., and Kramer was in my
Office as late as o'clock that afternoon.
Neither of them made any effort to get
away in a hurry, and l have said all the
time that Shields could be found at
Forest Lake, where he used to live, and
where they found him to-day. was sur
priSed when the matter was made public
by the newspapers on Thursday, but I
adhered to my determination not to say
anything, because l did not believe that
publicity was going to help matters at
all. But the whole affair has been so
vastly miSrepresented l concluded that
it was best to make this statement l
have not discharged Picha because there
was no good evidence against him.
THIS INSANE WOMAN
said that she had intercourse with both
Shields and Picha, but there was no
proof. On the other hand, did not
give the least credence to her state
mentS, because she had, while in jail,
told my bookkeeper, Mr.. GibbertOn
dozen crazy tales of men with whom she
had been intimate. She seemed to have
mania for the subject. She pointed
out five or six men among the prisoners,
whom she had never seen outside their
cells, and swore that she had been init
mate with them, and once, when law
yer came up to call on one of the pris-
OnerS, she pointed him out and claimed
to have slept with him time and again.
''There is absolutely no truth in the
story printed last evening that one of
my deputy sheriffs had been seen with
his arms around the other female pris-
oner, Annie Dixon. The woman her
self denies it all. She was released yes
terday by the district court Oh her own
recognizance. For fear they will charge
me with having her put out of the way,
l want to explain that it was all done
WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE.
City and County Physician Ancker ex-
amined and reported her condition to
Judge Egan, the county attorney. Yes
terday morning Judge Egan, without
my knowledge, sent deputy after her
and had her brought before the district
court, where, on his motion, the bail
was reduced from $1,000 and the judge
released her on her own recOgniZance.
"a word about this man Boyle. I
took him over to the police court myself
Wednesday morning after l had dis
charged Kramer. [ did not think at the
time l discharged Kramer that he was
the only witness l had against Boyle ;
but, as matter of fact, if Kramer had
appeared, and Boyle had been held to
the grand jury, it would have dropped
there, for Kramer could not possibly
have been detained here as witness
against Boyle"